I thought that except for the tinfoil hat crowd it had been pretty well established that what came down in Roswell was a high-altitude weather balloon?  A book such as this will probably get plenty of buyers though since the pudding brains in our society continue to believe that Aliens are abducting people and dissecting farm animals in the middle of the night.

A "respected" journalist

"Respected Journalist"  --  Isn't that and oxymoron along the lines of "political honesty" and "journalistic integrity"?

“Leftist intellectual”